Details
1121101
UCL
16/11/2026
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Part-time: 10 hours per week for 6.5 months
Not Applicable
Pay
£14.80
£2.77
Description
Role
Unitemps are recruiting for 2 Library Shelvers for 6 weeks in total. This role is suitable for UCL Students Only. This is a part-time role at 10 hours per week. This role has an start date of November 11th and a projected end date of June 11th 2027. Payment is set at £14.80 per hour + £14.80 holiday pay. This role is UCL on campus working.
Context
UCL is London’s global university. LCCOS – Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science – provides outstanding staff, services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL, and connects the world with UCL through innovative programming and engagement activities.
LCCOS is acknowledged as an international leader in Open Science and Scholarship. The LCCOS family comprises four museums and allied object collections, 14 libraries, the UCL Student Centre, Special Collections facilities, multiple additional learning spaces, and a substantial off-site storage facility. We also provide comprehensive services to healthcare staff through our partnerships with five NHS Trusts. LCCOS holds the UK Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Award, The National Archives (TNA) Archives Service Accreditation, and Arts Council England Museum Accreditation. The combined staff in UCL LCCOS totals around 450. LCCOS is part of the Office of the UCL Vice-Provost (Faculties).
The Customer Services Team provides frontline services at the Main and Science Libraries and the Student Centre. It is also responsible for providing Evening and Weekend Services across the majority of our Bloomsbury libraries. The Team supports enquiry services, membership and shelving services as well as interlending and document supply services.
Duties and responsibilities
Main purpose of the job
To assist in the delivery of an effective shelving service across UCL Libraries by working on a regular basis sorting and moving trolleys of library material, shelving library material accurately, and checking the order of books and periodicals on the shelves.
Duties and responsibilities
- Emptying book bins onto trolleys
- Sorting mixed trolleys of library materials onto shelving bays
- Preparing trolleys according to location
- Shelving library material
- Shelf tidying
- Assisting with Click-and-Collect Service
- Occasional book moving / shelf reorganisation
- Removing damaged material for repair
- Handling books and periodicals correctly to ensure a longer shelf-life
General
- Maintain an awareness and observation of Health and Safety Regulations and undertake Fire Marshal duties after appropriate training.
- Follow and actively promote the UCL Ways of Working.
- Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies UCL's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting UCL's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.
- Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.
- This job description may be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.
Skills and experience
Essential Criteria
Qualifications, experience and knowledge
- 5 GCSEs (Grades A*- C) including English and Maths; or equivalent
- Experience of using different services within a Library
Skills and abilities
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work as part of a team with common goals, sharing tasks appropriately or as prescribed
- Ability to work independently, reliably and with a flexible approach
- Good communication skills, particularly with colleagues
- Ability to undertake the physical aspects of handling and moving of library materials
- Patient and methodical approach to repetitive tasks, with excellent attention to detail
UCL Ways of Working
- Demonstrating a desire for things to work well
- Being helpful and courteous in dealing with colleagues, students and staff
Location
UCL, campus based
Additional information
This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Sunday October 20th. Interviews will be held shortly after.
*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).
*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.
Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.
Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.
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